the roof of a tree

A residential hut of the Kogi Indians. - Ciudad Perdida. The ruined city is located about 40 km southeast of Santa Marta in the middle of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the upper valley of the Río Buritaca. It covers an area of about 2 km² and consists of about 200 oval and round terraces, which are connected partly by steep and partly by flat stone paths, whereby the difference in height of the individual terraces is up to twelve meters. The part of the city that is exposed today lies between 900 and 1200 meters above sea level.